Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra--Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston--8:30 p.m.--Russell Sherman, piano, and Craig Smith and David Hoose, conductors--works of Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Stravinsky. Info...
Dunster House Music Society--Dunster House Library--3 p.m.--Brandenburg Party--open reading of Beethoven Symphony No.6 and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony--sherry and cider...
Busch Reisinger Museum--29 Kirkland St., Cambridge--noon--James Johnson, organ--program of Bach, Mozart, Marcello. Info...
...Georg Solti, the Paris Opéra's principal guest conductor, led Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. A light had been glaring in his eyes all evening and, leaning away to avoid it, he had already broken two batons. Then, early on in Act III, he stabbed himself in the temple with the point of his third baton. Blood poured down into his right eye, dripping onto the score and music desk. Onstage, Count Almaviva was alone, plotting revenge against his uppity manservant, Figaro. Solti went on beating time with his right hand and sopping...
Rossini's humor was, of course, strictly of the broad variety. Mozart's was something else again. One cherishes the 18th century for The Marriage of Figaro alone. One takes heart in the present, when a work of such bite and compassion can be done as well as it was on the Paris Opéra's first night in New York. Among the many talents at work was the same essential Strehler as in Macbeth-but what a difference! It was as if he had taken his lead from the Figaro overture, that barely perceptible rustle...